Installing Boost >= 1.58 on Ubuntu (16.04)

[sillitoe]

The commands in the docs only give me Boost 1.58.

Boost ( v1.60.0 / v1.61.0 ) [Ubuntu] $ sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS which doesn't seem crazily old.

$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS

I guess my options are:

• upgrade Ubuntu
• install boost libraries from a different method (Boost docs suggest install from tarball)

If that sounds about right (and assuming this project definitely does need boost >= 1.60), I can submit a PR for the docs?

[tonyelewis]

That sounds about right. I'm afraid it looks like the Boost jumped to 1.61 in 16.10. Have you tried just building anyway? It's possible I haven't actually used anything not in 1.58 (or only in test code). But I wouldn't get my hopes up.

TBH, I just expected that people would not do their own builds very much at all. So I've essentially made Travis-CI's setup my limiting factor for Boosts. To improve my user understanding, what is your situation that causes you to want to build yourself?

Yep - if you can be bothered to update the docs (maybe add a note after the relevant part like: if you're OS isn't sparkling new (eg older that Ubuntu 16.10) then the OS-supplied Boost may be too old so you may need to install a newer one directly from the Boost website instead), that'd be great. You really don't need to do a PR; if you update directly, I'll see the change and can tweak if I see fit.

[sillitoe]

Thanks.

My user case is that I'm investigating #62 :)

[tonyelewis]

My user case is that I'm investigating #62 :)

Thanks very much.

Maybe try rsyncing from my ~/cath-tools? I've just pulled (but not rebuilt the very latest change). I have six builds:

ninja_clang_debug_shared/cath-ssap
ninja_clang_release/cath-ssap
ninja_clang_relwithdebinfo/cath-ssap
ninja_gcc_debug_shared/cath-ssap
ninja_gcc_release/cath-ssap
ninja_gcc_relwithdebinfo/cath-ssap